West wins Stallings Trophy; Schubert plays well for East

Thursday

Oct 18, 2012 at 5:00 AM

The past weekend, the Tennessee Junior Cup matched up the top 12 junior golfers from West Tennessee against the top 12 junior golfers from East Tennessee in a Ryder Cup-style competition at Vanderbilt Legends Club in Franklin. After two day of intense competition, Team West, captained by FedEx Cup Champion Brandt Snedeker, captured the 2012 Tennessee Junior Cup “Scott Stallings Trophy.”

Special to The Oak Ridger

The past weekend, the Tennessee Junior Cup matched up the top 12 junior golfers from West Tennessee against the top 12 junior golfers from East Tennessee in a Ryder Cup-style competition at Vanderbilt Legends Club in Franklin. After two day of intense competition, Team West, captained by FedEx Cup Champion Brandt Snedeker, captured the 2012 Tennessee Junior Cup “Scott Stallings Trophy.”

Both teams battled to a 6-6 tie Saturday evening after six matches of four-ball competition that morning, and six matches of foursomes competition that afternoon. But Sunday was a different story. The first six singles match results on Sunday were separated by only one point, but the last six saw Team West take five of six available points to put a stamp on their victory, 14.5 to 9.5.

Oak Ridger and Christian Academy of Knoxville junior Sophia Schubert played in the inaugural event. Schubert along with her Team East teammate Jenna Burris defeated Samantha Gotcher and Alexa Rippy of Team West 2 and 1 Saturday but lost the fourball competition to Alexandra Farnsworth and Aubree Jones by the same score.

On Sunday, Shubert lost another close singles match 3 and 2 to Gotcher just a week after claiming the Class A/AA title for the second time in two years.

Each year Scott will invite one his PGA Tour friends to captain one of the sides of the matches. This year, Scott was able to secure Fed Ex Cup Champion and Nashville native Brandt Snedeker to captain Team West.

“This being its first year, I think we did well, but it will only get bigger and better,” said Stallings.

In 2013 the Tennessee Junior Cup will move to its new home at The Grove, a brand new golf development in southern Williamson County off of Interstate 840.